Hi Ralph, Do you purge your Guest Book? If you got that many pictures, you should have miles of entries.
Most of the real old BW pictures are scanned with a 1200x2400 dpa scanner set to 300x300 or 600x600 depending on the size of the original. Further processing is made by the simple MS Picture It SW. Particularily light/shade and contrast are important. Some colour pictures (1990-2003) are scanned from paper prints, but most (1968-1989) are scanned from diapositives at 1800x1800 dpa in the film frame. Further processing are also made with Picture It. Digital pictures (the recent ones) are sporting EXIF data.
http://public.fotki.com/Mercury7/mercury7_science_center-1/fotki-print/
They are to be used in The Mercury7 Science Center as part of the space exhibit program. thanks <3 Scott